winter

A jar of truffles

A few days after visiting the truffle market in Richerenches, we were staying in the medieval town of Uzès in the Gard. While the Gard is technically part of the Languedoc region, it feels very much like Provence.

Filed under:  food travel ingredients mushrooms winter france

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I often think of a day like a pie. I wish the pie could be bigger, but it's always the same size, 24 hours. Cutting down on the portion for "Sleep" never really works, so the other portions get re-arranged according to priorities at a given time.

Filed under:  legumes winter slowcook

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It's the final day of the Masterchef ingredient test challenge that I set out to do some weeks ago. My thoughts on the whole experience will follow, but here is the last ingredients list:

Filed under:  masterchef rhubarb winter pork

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The ingredients for the 9th day (1st day of the 3rd preliminary round) of MasterChef were:

Filed under:  masterchef potatoes winter pork

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The ingredients for day 7 overall, and day 3 of the 2nd round of preliminaries were:

Filed under:  masterchef potatoes winter beef

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The ingredients for this day (day 6 overall, and the second day of the second preliminary round) were:

Filed under:  masterchef potatoes winter fish pie

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Filed under:  swiss ingredients winter zurich

Nusslisalat

Filed under:  vegetables winter salad

Shepherds_pie

Having spent some of my growing-up years in England, I have a special place in my heart for shepherd's pie, otherwise known as cottage pie. It's definitely winter food though, because nothing is as warming as piping hot shepherd's pie straight out of the oven.

Filed under:  dinner potatoes winter pie favorites beef ground meat

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We had a small Oscar-watching party last night, and the two things I served were this soup (in mugs) and the stuffed bread described in the next entry.

Filed under:  soup vegetables winter

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